Kate - I've just seen your paintings. Having been a man with a woman for a time and sleeping on trips, having lived in Florida, California and Europe - being a nightime watcher and liver - loving Hopper and David and Wyeth and Holman Hunt and Millais - almost all your paintings fill me with a deja vu and longing.

I see a greatness in many of them - and they convey to me (as great works must 'Convey' something to us)that sense that Kipling gives us in his verse: "I've eaten your bread and salt;I've drunk your water and wine;The deaths ye've died, I've watched beside;And the lives that ye lived, were mine."

To some exent I'm a 'political' when on the net - but the material experience of known beauty such as you construct carries me away.

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Kate Kretz attended The Sorbonne in Paris, earned her BFA from SUNY Binghamton, and her MFA from The University of Georgia. She was BFA Director and an Associate Professor of Art at FIU in Miami for ten years. She currently works in her studio and gives lectures and workshops at various universities.